Isn't the Dells within a (relatively) short drive north of Madison? Maybe if anyone sticks around an extra day after the F2F, we can have a road trip up there, just to see the tackiness that is The Dells.
I'd love it if it was in Madison, as well!
Giles: Stop that, you two. Riley: He started it... Xander: He called me a bad name! I think
it was bad; it might have been Latin.
'Selfless'
F2F 4: Too Much Candy, Never Enough Mojitos.
Plan what to do, what to wear (you can never go wrong with a corset), and get ready for the next BuffistaCon: Madison, WI from June 20-22 2008! Official website.
Kathy A - Jun 08, 2007 7:37:27 am PDT #5955 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Fred Pete - Jun 08, 2007 7:40:58 am PDT #5956 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
I assumed the Dells wasn't meant seriously. The one advantage would be the opportunity to shock the mundanes, which I so rarely get to do these days.
(ETA: Kathy, it's about an hour or so north of Madison. My family spent a lot of time camping near Portage, which is even closer to the Dells, when I was a kid. We only went to the Dells once, though, because my parents had no tolerance for overpriced tourist traps.)
tommyrot - Jun 08, 2007 7:41:25 am PDT #5957 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Isn't the Dells within a (relatively) short drive north of Madison?
Yes.
The Dells are insanely busy in the summer - I've actually been stuck in a traffic jam on the highway North of Madison because of all the traffic heading towards the Dells. But I think it wouldn't be as bad in the spring when we usually F2F.
Kathy A - Jun 08, 2007 7:43:03 am PDT #5958 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Can you imagine Jilli in her full Jilliness, ND in his utilikilt, and the rest of the Buffistas in various garbs of corsets, silver pleather, and other Buffista-wear descending on Paul Bunyan's pancake house? What a blast that would be!
askye - Jun 08, 2007 7:55:27 am PDT #5959 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
Kathy, I was imagining all of that at Dollywood. I'm sure Dolly would be impressed and enjoy the hell out of it but I'm sure we'd freak everyone else out.
Same goes for Buffistas in Branson.
P.M. Marc - Jun 08, 2007 8:25:51 am PDT #5960 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
We should do Lawrence, Kansas!
Sure, it's Buffista free, as far as I know, but aside from the vague fannish interest I have in the place, a friend of Jilli's who lives there made it sound actually kind of nifty.
Kathy A - Jun 08, 2007 8:26:45 am PDT #5961 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The only thing I know about Lawrence, KS, was that it was where all the big stuff happened in The Day After.
P.M. Marc - Jun 08, 2007 8:27:41 am PDT #5962 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
The only thing I know about Lawrence, KS, was that it was where all the big stuff happened in The Day After.
I now know that it's a college town, with a good Ren Faire.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 08, 2007 8:43:58 am PDT #5963 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Kathy, I was imagining all of that at Dollywood. I'm sure Dolly would be impressed and enjoy the hell out of it but I'm sure we'd freak everyone else out.
They've seen bigger spectacles than us. Dollywood has its annual Out at the Park day as part of East Tennessee Pride Week in early June—imagine Gay Day at a Disneyworld owned by Liza Minelli.
Zenkitty - Jun 08, 2007 8:54:32 am PDT #5964 of 10002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I would be happy with any of these choices. Well, maybe less so Branson MO.
Nashville wouldn't be my first choice, but that's only because I'm from there, and I'd like to see cities I haven't seen before. And I haven't been there in fifteen years except for one quick visit, so I wouldn't be much good as a tour guide. Except that if we do go there, I'm dragging everyone with me to see the Parthenon. The Athena statue is finished and I haven't seen it complete!
I've been to Chicago, but that was for business. I wouldn't mind going back as a tourist. Everyone I know who's ever lived in Madison WI has loved it.